Take a Volunteer Vacation to Maine

The folks at No On 1/Protect Maine Equality invite you to consider a "volunteer vacation" this fall.

During the month leading up to the election, the campaign will be hosting a team of highly motivated volunteers to serve as full-time, volunteer campaign staff. In Maine voters begin casting their ballots in October, so we’re planning the Volunteer Vacation to run during the entire month of October. There are several shifts to choose from, each lasting one week (although you’re welcome to stay longer):

*WEEK #1: Sun, Oct 4 – Sun, Oct 11 (Arrive Sat, Oct 3. Orientation Sun, Oct 4. Depart Sun, Oct 11)

*WEEK #2: Sun, Oct 11 – Sun, Oct 18 (Arrive Sat, Oct 10. Orientation Sun, Oct 11. Depart Sun, Oct 18)

*WEEK #3: Sun, Oct 18 – Sun, Oct 25 (Arrive Sat, Oct 17. Orientation Sun, Oct 18. Depart Sun, Oct 25)

*WEEK #4: Sun, Oct 25 – Wednesday, Nov 4 (Arrive Sat, Oct 24. Orientation Sun, Oct 25. Depart Sun, Nov 1)

When you arrive, you will receive a full orientation and will be assigned to a team, where you will be trained on various aspects of the campaign. The campaign will provide housing with local supporters, but you will be responsible for paying for your own travel to/from Portland, food, and local transportation.

Crossposted via Joe My God.

Recruiting Volunteers to Help The Queer Agenda!

I just want to thank those who have heeded this posts call and have begun to help out. In particular Stephen, Seth, Mike, Vallan, Evilslutopia, Paula and many others of you have been adding entries on facebook, myspace, and your own blogs, and I want to thank you so much. Having you guys help spread the word is critical in two ways. 1. It allows more eyes to see the material, which results in more people taking action (emailing, writing, calling, boycotting, protesting, etc). 2. The less time I have to spend promoting the actions, the more time I have to find more information and action alerts, and put out more postings.

How can you help?

• There are different opportunities for people to help list each incoming post to different social networking sites like twitter, myspace, reddit, etc let me know if you would to be responsible for one.

• If anyone has talent making videos or graphics, perhaps you can get in touch and we can start working on this for specific campaigns. Videos can be uploaded to youtube and go viral, and graphics/banners can be placed on many pages, it would be a whole new way to promote our actions.

• Create your own entry on activism and different calls to action, and you could link and credit your site for such work. You could do as much or as little as you want, no obligations.

Thank you so much to those of you who have contacted me about helping out, or are already spreading the message in a variety of ways!

Thanks again for your loyal readership and committed activism, together we ARE making a difference!